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Very cool, I remember this was a kickstarter project. Glad to see it in completion. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getify/you-dont-know-js...

Coda's idea is a one window workflow, complete with webkit / FTP / Git / terminal built in. Most of my days using Coda I spent simply using it as an editor. Its a philosophical standpoint that really depends on workflow. Its integrated FTP operations are fantastic.

When I changed jobs, and started working for a company with much better work flows (and required more complex tech stacks), I ended up jumping to Sublime + Tower, and just using the terminal separately. On the blue-moon that I need a FTP, I fire up Transmit. Since I'm working off local hosts, then pushing my commits to Git repositories that are then served to Jenkins, (staging/beta builds vs production) I'm now never touching the server itself.

Coda is geared best for someone looking for a one app solution to a multitude of things. I think like many, I started with Coda and outgrew it and that's fine. Its a great place to start and does a good job of being accessible. Panic is renowned for its UI/Design and Coda certainly shows that.

I've still yet to fully embrace the nuances of Sublime Text even after a year of using it as my primary editor. Sublime is not a pleasant experience to configure.

So to summarize, Coda is a great place to start.

I'd argue that games are the best use case for the Mac App Store, Steam as others have pointed out has the cost of the Steam application.

For casual gamers, the Mac App Store is more than vibrant and has the same update management that Steam has, and its decoupled from a parent application.

Games rarely have upgrade pricing, almost never need extensive permissions, and while quick updates can be necessary, the necessity of upgrades aren't as crucial as a productivity/professional application where one's livelihood may be tied to the updates.

I'm pretty sure a VPN would achieve the level of security that most users looking for a "Tor" router would want, as Tor is a bit overkill, and silly if you're willing to commit to the behavior changes to make it effective.

Perhaps someone should partner with a popular VPN like PrivateInternetAccess or another major VPN, as it'd allow people to continue using the services they know and love, and keep some of the prying eyes away from their unencrypted traffic.

True, but the article does suggest using stack that is Chromebook centric, including virtualization.

The Chromebook stack like a viable option for a very limited use case, likely offices heavily locked into the Google-sphere of web apps, whose daily operations primarily aren't design/production/development.

Any use case that previously involved Thin-clients probably could be replaced with Chromebooks, and deliver as good, (if not better) user experience. Places like large etailers that use almost exclusively browser based applications (inventory / order management, CMSes, shipping services) could easily go this route.

While interesting, I found it interesting that Mr. Zdziarski libels that the original article by Violet Blue on ZDnet was written in angst over his religious views despite no evidence other than a few loose tweets unrelated to him or his religious views. http://www.zdnet.com/the-apple-backdoor-that-wasnt-700003178...

Outside of using Gulp JS and Stylus, I don't really see much of a point myself either, but where it gets interesting is the structure.

Example: https://github.com/mozbrick/brick-menu/blob/master/index.htm...

It looks like the library is pre-pended with a bunch of brick elements, based off its Minimal-markup Web Components.

They really do a bad job of explaining this on their brick page as right now, looking at it you'd assume its just yet-another-front-end-framework. Its not compelling (yet), but still of interesting.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/introducing-brick-minimal-...

Funny, I was about to recommend SnapRuler.

It's become part of my daily work flow. For the price and time saved, I can't recommend it enough.

Its on my list with ColorSnapper (another small dev made utility), between the two, I rarely take screenshots anymore. I find it more useful than browser plugins as often my rendering issues are with old browsers that lack such utilities.

I read the article but I couldn't find any advantages to the consumer or did I miss something?

As it stands: the service seems to bring nothing to the table agains the stores (Apple, Amazon, Google) or streaming services (Beats, Spotify, Rdio) or indie artists (Bandcamp).

Certainly a cool product to have a KBM (minus the m) for multiple devices but I see limited potential. rd.

For iOS / OS X users, if you're using using an iOS device + OS X computer, you're able to carry over conversations and even e-mail between devices in iOS8 + OS X 10.10. It sorta eliminates some of the necessity of having a keyboard for your touch screens.

This may be useful for testing but even when I'm doing development, (and we have a fistful of devices) I'm rarely using the keyboards and with the limit of 3, it wouldn't really be enough.

Pretty small sample size (most due to it being limited to Baltimore) but a nice read. None of the results are surprising, children from poor families remain disadvantaged throughout school and thus the cycle of poverty continues... :/

The most revelatory statement was the inherited job networks that that the disadvantaged white males had over the other children.

Based on the quotes at the bottom of the page (as there isn't any sample chapters or anything of that nature), it'll be witty businessisms and quips, much akin to the manifesto style of "Re:work" by 37 Sig... I mean basecamp. It'll probably be low on concrete advise but instead focus on a mindset.

Looks like the Hachette war has spilled into Audible as well, the audiobook version doesn't list Audible either.

Side note: The bottom of the page has a few interesting choice quotes: For example: ""Think 10X, not 10%. Global scale is available to just about everyone. But too many people are stuck in the old, limited mindset."

Sounds like they're describing a certain rival who only owns a fragment of the mobile OS space.

Full screen has a set of limitations for multiple monitors, either you're locked into one full screen app or the somewhat confusing world of separate workspaces for each display.

Well played, sir. One internet point for you.

Interesting, I managed to jump around and launch myself into the heavens, fumble through a maze which shot me flying to a pyramid... then appeared to glitch as I kept flying into the heavens.

I was about to say, "Sure, gimmick today... but tomorrow?"

Agreed, at least with the advent of precompilers and task managers like Grunt and Gulp we're starting to see a division from the previous generation of "web designers" where there's some hard skills that you simply do or don't have that can't be faked easily using bad WYSIWYG editors or rudimentary grasp of HTML and CSS.

Please tell me these are at the very least, CSS tables.

I had string of crappy jobs to get finally a good one. I worked at a dead end e-commerce company that's now defunct that provided its own in-house platform to sell to customers for e-commerce sites. It was miserable, everyone could see the company was on life-support, including the owners. The practices we used like editing code on live sites/servers was insanity. I forced myself to start using Git, making me the only one using version control and sneaking in best practices to hone in skills. I took what I could from the job to benefit me (taking on a project to make a mobile version of the platform). I hated the job as the work environment was toxic and it was affecting me outside of work. Even to this day, I have the occasional bad dream of being forced to go back to work for that company but having some sort of exit plan, even vague as mine helped enormously.

Picking a project and assigning it a tech stack is the best way I've found. Simply doing tutorials for the sake of tutorials takes superhuman dedication. My motivation grew also in parallel with the work conditions spiraling downward.

Long story short, I scored a job oodles better than the horrid job and make significantly more, and have happy coworkers and bosses that care. Plus, I've picked up a lot of skills here which I'd never been able to at my crappy job.

His article on Diatomaceous earth is mind boggling, advocating cooking with it http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

wikipedia: "In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[13] and have a mean particle size below about 12 µm (i.e., food-grade – see below)"

Its used occasionally for deworming people and considered a low risk insecticide. Just because you can eat it and it has some benefits in use cases doesn't mean you should consume as much as you can. Its the classic vitamin snake-oils sales pitch, "X is good for you thus more of X must be better for you"

Never underestimate the pariah complex...

While it'd be nice for Google to explain why he was banned, it already sounds like he understands why he was banned but he had a chance to grand-stand so he's on his soapbox.

Thanks for the heads up on that, my downloads folder resides on another drive. This app wouldn't be much help :(

Indeed, I used that angle when I called to cancel. It was pretty painless. When they asked me where I was moving to, I just said, "moving" and the rep pursued again, and I said "The moon".

That particular rep left me alone after that. I've received two phone calls since, to which I said, "I live in a yert in manitoba now" and the second call I just hung up. I still 9 months later receive occasion break up letters from comcast, asking me to come back.

Anyone else try it?

I was curious and tried his live demo URL. and I used OS X's built in screen capture while using Chrome. The screen capture worked, no special tricks needed. I didn't see any visual degradation between my screen shot and the original.

The long and short of it is his DRM did not work.

Yup. I was about to comment that had this been not flash dependent, it'd been rather tolerable. Although, asking to type in only the green captcha may pose problems for those suffering red-green color deficiency

Also interesting: Animated Captcha is said to be harder and easier to crack at the same time. http://phys.org/news/2012-02-stanford-team-animated-nucaptch...

If I recall correctly the GameBoy Color could only assign sprites 3 colors.

What's interesting is Nintendo also made the GameCube GameBoy Advance attachment much later

I wonder what lead KlearGear to decided it'd be a good idea to try to extort $3500 over the negative review years later.

The original e-mail complaint doesn't exactly cast the complaint in the best light as the customer makes an unreasonable demand and devolves to childish insults (although it does appear they were frustrated when they unable to reach KlearGear). The KlearGear response seems responsible given the circumstances...

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/KlearGearcom/San-Antonio-Texas...

Any immaturity by the customer pales to the decision send them to a claims department.

I've been kicking around the idea of a plugin for FF or Chrome to root the source out of a few popular reblog sites (HuffPuff, Upworthy etc) as they usually link it.

Rarely do the reblog sites add much other than op-ed commentary to original news item and it'd save me time when someone sends me a link to a news item to root out the source.

"It just can't last. Bundles used to earn a ton, but they don't anymore. If making pennies a copy selling your games in 12 packs is the main source of a developer's income, that developer is going to disappear."

Game devs aren't entirely to blame, Humble Bundles were not always weekly in the past, and they now run three separate bundles at a time.

I've bought more games from humble bundles than I ever will play (My steam account ballooned to 300+ games). Early humble bundles often featured more closely curated content, but due to the frequency, the quality was bound to slip. I find myself less interested.

Originally the humble indie bundles were a fantastic vehicle for me to find quality games that I'd never known about. I'd rather pay $10 for one game I will want to play than $6 for 10 titles I might play.